{"id":1165,"date":"2024-10-11T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2024-10-11T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T19:30:19","slug":"clear-lake-boys-shut-out-upper-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Clear Lake boys shut out Upper Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cardinals pick up first league in North Central League I soccer action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; In a battle of teams looking for their first North Central League I victory, the Clear Lake Cardinals shut out the Upper Lake Cougars 2-0 in boys soccer action Thursday in Upper Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake improved to 1-4 in the league standings while Upper Lake slipped to 0-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were at midfield most of the game, both teams are fairly evenly matched,\u201d Upper Lake head coach Thomas Santana said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake took a 1-0 lead near the end of the first on a shot by Bairo Carmona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing shot,\u201d Santana said. \u201cHe shot a rocket from a hard angle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carmona moved from striker to keeper in the second half as the Cardinals packed in their defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClear Lake did everything in their power to protect their lead,\u201d Santana said. \u201cThis caused me to move some pieces and leave us vulnerable to the counterattack, which they took advantage of for their second goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake had its opportunities to score, according to Santana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJaden Nunez was creating some great attacks for us, we just couldn\u2019t put it in the back of the net,\u201d Santana said. \u201cMario (Olvera) had two saves as centerback and also created some attacks for us later in the game when I had moved him to midfield in an attempt to get a goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Santana, \u201cAll in all I\u2019m proud of how my team played and am looking forward to our next game against them. We continue to improve. It might not show fully on the scoreboard, but the pieces are coming together nicely in rebuilding our program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams return to action Tuesday. Upper Lake travels to Lower Lake while Clear Lake visits Fort Bragg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinals pick up first league in North Central League I soccer action Lake County Sports on Facebook UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; In a battle of teams looking for their first North Central League I victory, the Clear Lake Cardinals shut out the Upper Lake Cougars 2-0 in boys soccer action Thursday in Upper Lake. Clear Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,16,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}